Two prominent Christian groups sent a letter to Politico on Wednesday demanding an apology for a reporter&#8217;s viral comments about Christians that the groups called &#8220;deeply disturbing.&#8221;
The Family Research Council and Catholic Vote criticized Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla for &#8220;trying to demonize the Christian community&#8221; with her comment that only extremist &#8220;Christian nationalists&#8221; believe human rights &#8220;come from God.&#8221;
The groups said Przybyla&#8217;s comments &#8220;demonstrated a disqualifying lack of knowledge of the United States of America’s founding documents and a profoundly prejudicial view toward American religious groups.&#8221;
Przybyla, Politico&#8217;s national investigative correspondent, made the controversial remarks during an appearance on MSNBC last week.
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Politico National Investigative Correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/HeidiReports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeidiReports</a> says Christian Nationalists – but not Christians – are united by a belief &quot;that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don&#39;t come from any earthly authority&#8230; They come from God” <a href="https://t.co/vSMWe1nedR">pic.twitter.com/vSMWe1nedR</a>
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Przybyla said that the &#8220;base of the Republican Party has shifted&#8221; after former President Donald Trump attracted a &#8220;more extremist element,&#8221; including &#8220;Christian nationalists.&#8221;
&#8220;The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists — not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalist is very different — is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don&#8217;t come from any earthly authority. They don&#8217;t come from Congress, they don&#8217;t come from the Supreme Court. They come from God,&#8221; said Przybyla.
This is a problem, Przybyla said, because it means &#8220;men are determining what God is telling them.&#8221;
She went on to say that &#8220;natural law&#8221; is a pillar of Catholicism and has been used for good in social justice campaigns such as Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s civil rights movement.
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&#8220;But now you have an extremist element of conservative Christians who say that this applies specifically to issues including abortion, gay marriage, and it&#8217;s going much further than that,&#8221; Przybyla said.
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Brian Burch of Catholic Vote wrote in their letter to Politico that it is &#8220;deeply disturbing&#8221; that Przybyla seems &#8220;unaware of the opening of the Declaration of Independence or to its references of &#8216;the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.'&#8221;
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&#8220;Her statements constituted an attempt to spread misinformation about Christians by creating the perception that they hold unique beliefs that pose a distinct and, in her words &#8216;extremist,&#8217; threat to our country,&#8221; the Christian groups wrote. &#8220;Setting aside the inaccuracy of her commentary, she was manifestly trying to demonize the Christian community and sow fear through propaganda.&#8221;
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The letter added that Przybyla&#8217;s public platform where she can reach millions of people makes the situation even more disturbing.
Additionally, the groups said Przybyla has a &#8220;pattern&#8221; of singling out Christian organizations, as evidence by her recent articles.
&#8220;Rhetoric like Ms. Przybyla’s, which demonizes religious groups, is profoundly dangerous. It can motivate disturbed individuals who may be predisposed to commit violence against faith communities,&#8221; the groups wrote.
The groups said they believe Przybyla’s comments reflect a &#8220;pervasive bias&#8221; that prevents her from covering religious issues.
&#8220;Ms. Przybyla owes people of faith an apology, as does her employer. Politico must confirm that such offensive comments have no place within its organization,&#8221; the groups wrote.
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Meet the Press – Season 73

Christian Groups Demand Apology For Politico Reporter’s ‘Christian Nationalists’ Comments

Christian Groups Demand Apology For Politico Reporter's 'Christian Nationalists' Comments

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A Jewish advocacy group filed a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/01.pdf">lawsuit on Wednesday</a> charging the Associated Press with “material support of terrorism,” asserting that the news wire made payments to known agents of Hamas.
The National Jewish Advocacy Center asserts that on and after October 7, the date of the Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis, the AP paid for real-time images of the attacks being carried out by photographers who are &#8220;known associates&#8221; of the terrorist group. Included in the group of images were scenes of Israeli hostages being transported into Gaza, where many of them have since been killed.
&#8220;AP’s website gave credit to photographers Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud and Hatem Ali, for taking photographs of the massacre inside of the State of Israel,&#8221; the federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the group by attorneys including David Schoen asserts. &#8220;These photojournalists are known Hamas associates who were gleefully embedded with the Hamas terrorists during the October 7th attacks, and who sometimes worked for AP.&#8221;
&#8220;Upon information and belief, AP paid for the real time images of Israeli hostages being taken into Gaza despite having been warned well in advance that at least one of these so-called &#8216;journalists&#8217; were in fact Hamas affiliates, and despite the clear indications that they were functioning as full participants of the Hamas terrorist squad that conducted the October 7th attack, and not as AP chose to pretend as journalists,&#8221; it continues.
The group said in a press release on its lawsuit that the AP in communications with its attorneys has &#8220;flatly denied what has been established by demonstrable evidence.” The AP released a statement on Thursday calling the lawsuit &#8220;baseless.&#8221;
&#8220;The Associated Press has the deepest sympathy for those affected by the horrific Oct. 7 attacks in Israel,&#8221; AP spokeswoman Lauren Easton said. &#8220;At the same time, we must be clear that a lawsuit filed Wednesday against AP for its reporting on the attacks is baseless.&#8221;
&#8220;Documenting breaking news events around the world – no matter how horrific – is our job. Without AP and other news organizations, the world would not have known what was happening on Oct. 7,&#8221; Easton added.
The lawsuit states that the AP with &#8220;simple due diligence&#8221; could have determined that the &#8220;people they were paying were longstanding Hamas affiliates and full participants in the terrorist attack that they were also documenting.&#8221;
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&#8220;AP willfully chose to turn a blind eye to these facts, and instead profited from its terrorist photographer’s participation in the massacre through its publication of the &#8216;exclusive&#8217; images, for which it certainly paid a premium, effectively funding a terrorist organization,&#8221; it asserts.
The group added in its press release that one of the journalists was even photographed being kissed by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
“The AP was told long ago that at least one of the people they were paying was affiliated with Hamas, “ the National Jewish Advocacy Center said. “In fact, this arrangement was such an open secret that a picture one of their photographers posted three years ago of himself being kissed by the demented arch terrorist Sinwar has been widely displayed by the media.”
&#8220;When a news outlet allows itself to be leveraged as a platform to disseminate material aid and as a propaganda arm for identifiable terrorist elements, it becomes a participant in the ensuing events and subject to the same remedies and penalties as those they report on,” Bencion Schlager, one of the attorneys working on the case, stated.
Another attorney representing the plaintiffs, former Bal Harbour mayor Gabriel Groisman, said that the accusations against the AP must be adjudicated in federal court.
&#8220;Providing material support for a terror organization violates U.S. law and is morally repugnant,&#8221; Groisman said. &#8220;This Complaint holds the AP accountable for doing just that, by knowingly engaging a Hamas affiliated photographer who actively participated in Hamas&#8217; barbaric attack, as set forth in detail in the Complaint.&#8221;
&#8220;The AP&#8217;s use of a Hamas photographer, who accompanied and celebrated the terrorists on October 7, brought immediate public condemnation when it came to light. However, we are a nation of laws and we look forward to adjudicating these critical claims before a U.S. District Court, as a way to bring some justice to those directly impacted by the vicious October 7 terror attacks,&#8221; Groisman added.
The accusations regarding the AP&#8217;s use of Hamas-affiliated photographers were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mainstream-outlets-had-photographers-embedded-with-hamas-as-terror-attack-unfolded-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first made by Honest Reporting</a>, a media watchdog, last November. The AP at the time acknowledged the use of freelancers in Gaza, and stood by the practice.
“The role of the AP is to gather information on breaking news events around the world, wherever they happen, even when those events are horrific and cause mass casualties,&#8221; spokeswoman Nicole Meir <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mainstream-outlets-distance-themselves-from-gaza-photographers-that-embedded-with-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire. &#8220;AP uses images taken by freelancers around the world, including in Gaza.”

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Jewish Group Sues AP For Providing ‘Material Support Of Terrorism,’ Paying Known Hamas Associates

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN&#8217;s</a> fact checker spent four minutes on Friday correcting multiple statements from President Biden on his handling of classified information, calling some of them &#8220;just not true.&#8221;
Biden made the questionable statements late Thursday night during a press conference addressing Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s final report on his criminal investigation into Biden&#8217;s handling of classified documents.
CNN fact checker Daniel Dale took the president to task on several statements, including Biden&#8217;s claim that he had stored all the documents in question in filing cabinets that could be locked.
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CNN is now ripping Biden to shreds for his lies. It’s over for him when CNN and MSNBC come for him. <a href="https://t.co/KRBhncP2zO">pic.twitter.com/KRBhncP2zO</a>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1756035947656032379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Just not true, John,&#8221; Dale told anchor John Berman.
The special counsel&#8217;s report includes photos of a box &#8220;just sitting&#8221; in Biden&#8217;s Delaware garage, Dale said, adding that the special counsel had described it as a &#8220;badly damaged box sitting amid household detritus.&#8221;
&#8220;So there was some material that was in cabinets, locked or lockable, as the president said, but all of it, certainly not, and that open, unsealed, damaged box included, according to the special counsel, highly sensitive, top secret material about the war in Afghanistan,&#8221; Dale said.
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Biden also told the press on Thursday that &#8220;none of it was high classified, didn&#8217;t have any of that red stuff on it, you know what I mean, around the corners? None of that.&#8221;
Dale said that claim is &#8220;also not true,&#8221; noting that the special counsel said Biden had &#8220;multiple highly classified documents that were indeed marked as being highly classified documents, including some marked as &#8216;TOP SECRET/SCI,&#8217; sensitive compartmented information.&#8221;
&#8220;That is a very high level of classification,&#8221; Dale added.
Two top secret documents about Afghanistan were in the damaged, open box in Biden&#8217;s garage, according to the special counsel — one with &#8220;highly sensitive info about military programs&#8221; and another with &#8220;info about sensitive intelligence sources and methods,&#8221; Dale said.
&#8220;Now it&#8217;s not clear, John, if any of those Biden documents had those colored borders we saw on classified docs that former president Trump had, which I think is what President Biden was referring to when he talked about &#8216;red around the corners.&#8217; But still, whatever coloring these documents had, the special counsel says they were clearly marked as highly classified,&#8221; Dale said.
Biden was also storing handwritten notes that he took during his vice presidency, which also contained highly classified information. According to the special counsel, at least seven excerpts from the handwritten notes included information on human intelligence sources.
The special counsel also said Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/politics/fact-check-biden-makes-three-false-claims-about-his-handling-of-classified-information/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read</a> classified information from his handwritten notes to his ghostwriter on at least three occasions, including notes from meetings in the Situation Room.
During his press conference, however, Biden claimed the special counsel did not say that.
&#8220;So he&#8217;s entitled to say he didn&#8217;t do it,&#8221; Dale said on CNN. &#8220;He can defend himself. But &#8230; declaring the special counsel just did not say what he said, John, is not a factual defense.&#8221;
Hur&#8217;s report, which was released earlier on Thursday, concluded that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” but said the president should not be charged.
However, one of the reasons the special counsel recommended not charging Biden was because the president exhibited memory issues, including forgetting when his son Beau had died or when his term as vice president in the Obama administration had started and ended. Hur concluded that a jury would view Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Participates In CNN Town Hall

‘Just Not True’: CNN Fact Checker Spends Four Minutes Correcting Biden

CNN Fact Checker Spends Four Minutes Correcting Biden

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A former New York Times journalist claimed Monday that the newspaper only allows its writers to express &#8220;right-wing opinions,&#8221; not Left-wing views, prompting raised eyebrows.
Taylor Lorenz, a tech reporter who now writes for The Washington Post, made the claim in a <a href="https://www.threads.net/@taylorlorenz/post/C0udsGiSPAx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Instagram&#8217;s Threads.
&#8220;Anyone who&#8217;s worked as a journalist at the NYT knows that journalists there are absolutely allowed to loudly espouse political opinions, you just have to espouse the *right* political opinions. Right wing opinions are fine, left wing opinions are not,&#8221; Lorenz wrote in her post.
She added, &#8220;For instance, at the NYT I wasn&#8217;t allowed to express the &#8216;opinion&#8217; that online harassment was a bad thing, in the midst of having my entire family harassed and doxxed. I also once had to delete a tweet where I said I don&#8217;t like living in America lol. But saying &#8216;wokes&#8217; are taking over campus is totally fine in their book.&#8221;
Lorenz&#8217;s post was met with amused and incredulous reactions on social media.
&#8220;The parody writes itself,&#8221; Elon Musk, owner of X, posted along with two laughing emojis, reacting to a post about Lorenz&#8217;s comments.
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The parody writes itself
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This person lives in an alternate reality. <a href="https://t.co/hUOI1HLsSk">pic.twitter.com/hUOI1HLsSk</a>
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&#8220;This person lives in an alternate reality,&#8221; posted journalist Adam Rubenstein, who also previously worked at the Times.
&#8220;This has to be a joke, right?&#8221; one X user wrote.
&#8220;When I think of the NYT, I definitely think of it being right wing,&#8221; another X user posted.
The Times frequently publishes pieces that platform Left-wing causes and views.
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In October, the Times falsely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-it-lied-about-israel-new-york-times-verification-badge-removed-by-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Israeli military bombed a hospital in Gaza, causing X to remove the Times’ verification badge.
Back in May, the Times published a piece <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/style/polyamory-somerville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advising</a> readers which U.S. cities grant more &#8220;rights&#8221; to people engaging in polyamory.
Lorenz herself frequently attracts criticism for her opinions and reporting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-lorenz-questions-libs-of-tiktok-about-fostering-violence-gets-mocked-in-reply" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tactics</a>.
Last year, Lorenz wrote a controversial article for the Post revealing the identity of Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the popular Libs of TikTok account on X. Initially, the story linked to Raichik’s real estate license, which showed her name, real estate license number, and possible physical address. The Post removed the link after being accused of doxxing Raichik.
Lorenz has also been a vocal critic of lifting pandemic restrictions such as mandatory face masks, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/taylor-lorenz-in-twitter-feud-with-sopranos-meme-account/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> the lack of COVID rules places immunocompromised people like herself at risk. She continued to wear a face mask in public as recently as this year.

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Taylor Lorenz Says NY Times Only Allows ‘Right-Wing Opinions’

Taylor Lorenz Says NY Times Only Allows 'Right-Wing Opinions'

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New York Times

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Hundreds of employees at The Washington Post went on strike Thursday, citing &#8220;record-level inflation,&#8221; even as the paper itself ran articles insisting that the economy is doing well under the Biden administration.
About 750 Post staffers <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/12/07/washington-post-strike-layoffs-buyouts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walked</a> off the job for a 24-hour strike, and they are asking readers not read or engage with any Post content, Axios reported.
&#8220;We still lack a contract that keeps pace with record-level inflation and guarantees workers a living wage,&#8221; the union, the Washington Post Guild, <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/workers-at-the-washington-post-deserve-a-living-wage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in its announcement of the strike.
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Workers <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> have been in contract negotiations with our bosses for 18 months. 
But the company is refusing to pay us what we’re worth or bargain in good faith.
So on Dec. 7, we’re walking off the job for 24 hours. <a href="https://t.co/GCraL1I0nm">pic.twitter.com/GCraL1I0nm</a>
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Meanwhile, the Post called it &#8220;a miracle year for the U.S. economy&#8221; in an editorial <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/02/us-economy-2024-recovery-normal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> on Saturday, citing falling inflation.
&#8220;In many ways, this is the year the economy finally returned to something close to normal. But many people seem to have forgotten what normal looks like after a traumatic few years,&#8221; the editorial read.
A Thanksgiving week editorial called for &#8220;gratitude&#8221; and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/22/thanksgiving-democracy-gratitude/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the &#8220;typical U.S. family’s cup runneth over&#8221; compared to families in places like Ukraine, Gaza, and Afghanistan.
&#8220;Voters seem to be giving President Biden little or no credit for the modicum of economic and geopolitical stability over which he has presided,&#8221; the editorial said, although it admitted that the cost of housing, fuel, and food &#8220;remain elevated compared with their pre-pandemic levels.&#8221;
The Post worker strike comes after 18 months of contract negotiations.
The Post is facing a $100 million loss this year. In response, the paper is trying to get rid of 240 jobs, but only about 120 employees have accepted voluntary buyouts, according to Axios.
Last week, The Post warned that it may have to start laying people off if more employees do not accept voluntary buyouts.
Meanwhile, soaring inflation is making life difficult for Americans.
The inflation rate has slowed slightly since 2021, when it spiked to the highest levels in four decades, but many American families say they are struggling more financially now than they did before the pandemic, CBS News polling from September <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-need-over-11k-more-to-keep-2021-standard-of-living-report#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a>.
According to one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-need-over-11k-more-to-keep-2021-standard-of-living-report#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a>, Americans need over $11,000 more this year to keep the same standard of living they enjoyed at the beginning of 2021.
Less than half of Americans, 47%, say they cannot live comfortably and have little money left over after meeting their expenses, down from 56% who said so in 2019, according to the polling. Meanwhile, more than half, 53% of Americans, say they either have just enough or cannot meet their expenses, up from 44% in 2019.
Wages have grown, but they have not kept up with inflation, as the Post staffers appeared to acknowledge in their strike announcement.
The average hourly wage has increased 13.6% since January 2021, but inflation has outpaced that growth with a 17% spike, government data <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-households-need-extra-11400-these-states-its-even-higher/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=251671293" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.

Washington Post journalists stage historic walk-out amid festering labor dispute

Washington Post Employees Strike Over ‘Record-Level Inflation’ As Paper Insists Economy Is Good

Washington Post Employees Strike Over 'Record-Level Inflation' As Paper Insists Economy Is Good

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A writer for the sports blog Deadspin was skewered online after doubling down on his accusation that a child wore &#8220;blackface&#8221; to a Kansas City Chiefs game.
The small boy wore an American Indian headdress and painted half his face red and the other half black at Sunday&#8217;s game against the Las Vegas Raiders in Nevada.
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Of course. Also, though it is sometimes offensive, there&#39;s nothing inherently wrong with &quot;blackface.&quot; (Just ask Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Billy Crystal, Robert Downey Jr., Sarah Silverman, Dan Aykroyd, John Slattery, et al.!) <a href="https://t.co/ALZr3xiMGm">https://t.co/ALZr3xiMGm</a>
&mdash; Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1729321050821832880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Bruh. This kid is like 12. I know you idiots are obsessed with calling everyone racist but perhaps he was just honoring his favorite team?? <a href="https://t.co/ol8GRCkHa6">https://t.co/ol8GRCkHa6</a> <a href="https://t.co/jETWc4Pcm6">pic.twitter.com/jETWc4Pcm6</a>
&mdash; Olivia Rondeau 🇺🇸 (@rondeaulivia) <a href="https://twitter.com/rondeaulivia/status/1729303646708359380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Deadspin senior writer Carron Phillips spotted the child and penned an article on Monday calling on the NFL to &#8220;speak out against&#8221; the young fan.
&#8220;It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time,&#8221; Phillips <a href="https://deadspin.com/roger-goodell-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-black-face-native-1851048905" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
Phillips also threw a barb at the NFL, saying the league has &#8220;relentlessly participated in prejudice&#8221; and should have already changed the Chiefs&#8217; name.
&#8220;This is what happens when you ban books, stand against Critical Race Theory, and try to erase centuries of hate,&#8221; Phillips wrote.
Later in the day on Monday, Phillips doubled down on his accusation.
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&#8220;For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse. Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco,&#8221; Phillips wrote in an X post.
Phillips was immediately pummeled in the replies to his post, which garnered thousands of responses. The Community Notes feature on X also added a note saying the writer &#8220;failed to provide full context&#8221; that the boy&#8217;s face paint is a reference to the football team.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1729321050821832880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> that &#8220;though it is sometimes offensive, there&#8217;s nothing inherently wrong with &#8216;blackface,'&#8221; citing the many Hollywood performers who have performed in blackface over the years, including Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Robert Downey Jr., and Billy Crystal.&#8221;
&#8220;Deadspin writer here is trying to ruin the life of a child while insisting he’s actually the good guy in this situation,&#8221; one X user <a href="https://twitter.com/jameslynch32/status/1729283036007596279" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;This race-hustling loser is tripling-down on attacking a young kid as &#8216;Racist!&#8217; for wearing Kansas City Chiefs face-paint,&#8221; another X user <a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1729385180517769351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve spent decades paying some of the dumbest and most sensitive people alive to produce absolute drivel like this,&#8221; posted Wilfred Reilly, a political science professor at Kentucky State University.
The Daily Signal reporter Tony Kinnett wrote, &#8220;as a federally-registered member of the Cherokee Nation, I give any and all of you full permission to wear headdresses and tribal clothing. Paint your face red. Do a rain dance (then repent and seek Jesus). Also bring back the Cleveland Indians.&#8221;

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Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> news anchor Christina Pascucci announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday morning in a bid against career politicians to fill the seat left by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
&#8220;This election will be a choice between how it&#8217;s been done, and how it can be,&#8221; Pascucci said in a video statement on X.
&#8220;Voters are disappointed by the polarization and partisan fighting they see in California, and across the nation. We need aspirational leaders now who will bring America back to its ideals. Washington is in dire need of a heavy dose of truth. I am the person to bring it,&#8221; she said, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-news-reporter-christina-pascucci-announces-run-for-us-senate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS</a>.
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I have some breaking news: I am running for U.S. Senate. 
It’s time to stop the fighting in Washington, and focus on reaching across the aisle to put people over politics. 
I believe in the promise of California. I hope you do too. Join my fight: <a href="https://t.co/XycFXEHJYn">https://t.co/XycFXEHJYn</a> <a href="https://t.co/zhwX1n8TC4">pic.twitter.com/zhwX1n8TC4</a>
&mdash; Christina Pascucci (@Pascucci2024) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pascucci2024/status/1714705605410385929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Pascucci, 38, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/18/christina-pascucci-senate-california-00122166" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> POLITICO she is running as an independent Democrat to appeal to California&#8217;s 40% Latino population and undecided voters while positioning herself as a moderate consensus builder.
She spent over a decade reporting for KTLA-TV and Fox 11 before joining California&#8217;s 2024 Senate contest. The former anchor described herself as a &#8220;lifelong Californian, a tireless community activist,&#8221; and a &#8220;renowned journalist&#8221; after reporting in more than 100 countries worldwide, including war zones in Ukraine and other &#8220;conflict areas around the globe.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been covering the most pressing issues of California for the past 15 years and watching this race closely, as well as covering it and interviewing some of the candidates,&#8221; Pascucci said in the interview on Tuesday with the outlet. &#8220;And the more I watched it, the more closely I studied it, I honestly felt dismayed by how it was shaping up. I spoke to a lot of others who felt the same way. Like, this is our future — more of the same.&#8221;
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Pascucci joins top Democrats in the race, including Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Katie Porter, Rep. Barbara Lee, and former Los Angeles Dodger Steve Garvey, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-baseball-mvp-running-for-senate-in-california-as-republican" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running as a Republican</a>.
California Governor Gavin Newsom selected Laphonza Butler to become the newest U.S. Senator after Feinstein&#8217;s death in late September to serve in her place for the remainder of the current term, which ends in 2025.
Butler hasn&#8217;t announced if she plans to seek the position in the next election.
Pascucci reportedly admitted her bid for Congress is a long shot.
&#8220;The only thing crazier than not jumping in this late would be not jumping in at all, because I have to fight for what I believe is possible for California and for this country,&#8221; she said.
The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-18/los-angeles-newscaster-christina-pascucci-senate-schiff-porter-lee-garvey-feinstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> she would need to raise several million dollars to finance campaign ads throughout California&#8217;s expensive media market. She reportedly faces a financial challenge in her campaign compared to others already plugged into the race.
According to the Times report, the Federal Election Commission showed Schiff&#8217;s September bank records had about $32 million, Porter had $12 million, and Lee had $1.3 million.
The primary election for the seat is scheduled for March 5 in California, NBC <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/decision-2024/los-angeles-tv-newscaster-christina-pascucci-joins-2024-race-for-u-s-senate/3246558/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The top two candidates who receive the most votes advance to the general election.

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Warner Bros. Discovery said it will attempt to get <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-praises-bidens-maui-speech-where-he-compared-historic-fire-to-small-kitchen-fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> back into the streaming game a little more than a year after its streaming service CNN+ bombed after a month in operation. 
The media conglomerate is calling its second try at a news streaming platform “CNN Max,” which is slated to launch on September 27. CNN Max will feature some of the network’s existing shows, including “Amanpour,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” and “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/warner-bros-discovery-adds-cnn-live-news-service-to-max-streaming-platform-9b87e4f2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. CNN Max will also launch new shows “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, Rahel Solomon, Amara Walker and Fredricka Whitfield” and “CNN Newsroom with Jim Sciutto.” 
Warner Bros. Discovery said the new streaming service would be different from the subscriber-based CNN+ in that it will be included in the MAX (formerly known as HBO MAX) streaming package at no additional cost to MAX subscribers.
“We have the broadest and highest quality entertainment offering, and now will include world-leading news as a meaningful addition for all Max subscribers, at no extra charge,” said JB Perrette, WarnerBros. Discovery CEO and president of Global Streaming and Games, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4168779-cnns-parent-company-to-launch-new-streaming-news-service/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Hill.
In April 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-after-new-streaming-service-struggled-to-attract-viewers-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shut down</a> CNN+ after less than a month in operation after the streaming service failed to attract subscribers. Fewer than 10,000 people were streaming CNN+ daily, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/cnn-plus-low-viewership-numbers-warner-bros-discovery.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CNBC, even after it signed former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace and gave him a show on the platform.
Then-incoming CEO Chris Licht said the “decision [to shut down CNN+] is in line with WBD’s broader direct-to-consumer strategy. In a complex streaming market, consumers want simplicity and an all-in service, which provides a better experience and more value than stand-alone offerings.”
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Licht <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ceo-chris-licht-out-at-cnn-after-tumultuous-year-controversial-trump-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped down</a> from his position as CEO in June as the media company continued to struggle with attracting a large audience. The former CNN executive faced criticism from his employees after canceling CNN+. The past year for the legacy media outlet has been a rollercoaster. Familiar faces on the network, such as longtime journalist Brian Stelter and host Don Lemon, were axed under Licht’s reign, and the tumultuous leadership of Licht came to a boiling point when the network hosted a town hall with former President Donald Trump in May.

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A Nebraska mother has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-charges-nebraska-704b4068ed53791710edad4124f7e750">pleaded</a> guilty to illegally giving her 17-year-old daughter abortion pills and helping her burn and bury the baby’s body.
Jessica Burgess, 42, of Norfolk, Nebraska, pled guilty to three felonies in a plea agreement with Madison County District Attorney Joe Smith. She admitted to providing an abortion after 20 weeks gestation, lying to police, and tampering with human remains.
As part of the plea deal, Smith dropped charges against Jessica for concealing the death of another person and providing an abortion by someone other than a physician. With the three remaining felonies, she could face up to five years in prison and $21,000 in fines. 
Burgess helped her daughter, Celeste Burgess, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nebraska-woman-pleads-guilty-burning-fetus-abortion-rcna85922">order</a> abortion pills on the internet in April 2022 when she was 29 weeks pregnant, in violation of Nebraska’s 20 week abortion ban. After taking the pills, the daughter gave birth to the aborted baby in the shower and put the body in a bag and a box, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-nebraska-government-and-politics-b94abeeed9a8c486cf479d6ae78c62aa">Associated Press</a>.
The pair then drove to a field outside of town, burned the baby’s dead body, and buried it. A detective wrote that the child’s body showed signs of “thermal wounds” and that a man who helped the duo confirmed the mother and daughter burned the baby’s dead body.
The mother-daughter duo was charged in August 2022, and they both initially pleaded not guilty. Celeste, now 18, reached a plea agreement in May and is scheduled for sentencing July 20, facing up to two years in prison. Jessica is scheduled for sentencing on September 22. 
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-allegedly-aborted-burned-and-buried-her-baby-heres-how-media-covered-it">reported</a>, mainstream media outlets obscured the facts of the case and instead focused on Facebook assisting law enforcement in enforcing an abortion law by handing over the duo’s messages. 
“Are we starting it today?” Celeste Burgess <a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/COURTDOC-comp.jpg">asked</a> her mother, to which her mom replied, “We can if u want,” adding, “the one will stop the hormones.”
The two discuss the process of taking the abortion pills before Celeste Burgess reminds her mother, “Remember we burn the evidence.”
“Yep,” her mother responds.
“Once everything is out,” the daughter continued.
“Yep,” the mom answers. “Thought u would b happy 2 hear the stuff came in.”
“Yes,” responds the daughter. “I will finally be able to wear jeans.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/el-salvador">El Salvador</a>&#8216;s crackdown on violent gangs, which has reduced the country&#8217;s murder rate by over half is problematic actually, according to The Guardian.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/02/the-guardian-view-on-el-salvadors-crackdown-a-short-term-high-cost-fix">The Guardian</a> published an editorial on Sunday criticizing El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for his unsparing crackdown on violent organized crime, saying his methods do not address the root cause of the crime, among other issues, Townhall <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2023/07/06/the-guardian-takes-issue-with-el-salvador-reducing-murders-by-90-percent-n2625373" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
The Guardian acknowledged that the crackdown has made the country safer, made Bukele more popular, and even made other Latin countries want to copy El Salvador and rid their streets of crime the same way.
&#8220;Even long-term critics acknowledge that extortion appears to have fallen sharply and that many in communities which lived in terror are enjoying the freedom to live their lives unmenaced. Yet others, many of them innocent of any crime, have paid a high price for a campaign that has trampled over basic rights: at least 153 people have died,&#8221; the editorial said.
The Guardian questioned Bukele&#8217;s power as well as the crackdown.
&#8220;Some may consider that a price worth paying. But even focusing purely on results, the story is more complicated than it appears,&#8221; The Guardian said, saying the murder rate has been falling since 2015.
El Salvador&#8217;s murder rate <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-01-03/el-salvador-murders-plummet-by-over-half-in-2022-amid-gang-crackdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plummeted</a> 56.8% in 2022, with authorities counting 496 homicides last year, down from 1,147 in 2021.
The editorial also said the crackdown does not address the underlying causes of organized crime.
&#8220;[Critics] also say the fall in crime is unsustainable – with good reason,&#8221; the editorial continued. &#8220;Previous hardline drives in the region have ended badly, followed by surges in offending. They do nothing to tackle underlying causes such as poverty and discrimination. They breed resentment and enable the recruitment and hardening of those not entrenched in gangs. Many of the criminal organisations that now terrorise parts of Latin America were born in prisons.&#8221;
The Guardian said one critic said the &#8220;real success story is not of the defeat of gangs, but the perpetuation of Mr Bukele’s power.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a man who dubbed himself &#8216;the coolest dictator in the world&#8217; in response to criticism,&#8221; The Guardian said.
&#8220;It is assumed that the popularity of his crackdown will sweep him back into power next year, even though multiple experts say that would violate the country’s constitution. What worries opponents, scholars, lawyers and civil society most is what he may do after that, with renewed authority,&#8221; the editorial said.
&#8220;&#8216;Bukelismo&#8217; should not be admired, or emulated,&#8221; The Guardian concluded.
Last month, Bukele encouraged journalists to speak to El Salvadorans on the street about the crackdown.
&#8220;Given that we have over 300 international media outlets in the country today, I want to ask you to go speak with people on the street, ask anyone you meet at random,&#8221; Bukele said in a video message to journalists posted to Twitter.
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&#8220;Here, in El Salvador, you are free to go anywhere you want. It&#8217;s totally safe,&#8221; Bukele said. &#8220;Nothing will happen to you. Nobody will stop you.&#8221;
El Salvador’s crackdown on violent criminals began last year when the government declared a state of emergency as the country battled a spike in murders.
The crackdown <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/el-salvadors-crime-crackdown-could-push-gangs-north-toward-u-s-expert-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has seen</a> thousands of suspected gang members locked up in the country’s new maximum security prison in central El Salvador, which can hold up to 40,000 inmates. Striking video footage showed lines of shirtless, heavily-tattooed prisoners with shaved heads running bent over and handcuffed as they were moved to the new prison facility.
“They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-gang-crackdown-prison-state-of-emergency-d95e1fcd5b806c38077ffb060c8c2f48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> El Salvador’s justice minister Gustavo Villatoro at the time.

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The legacy media has insisted for years now that questions about Ray Epps are just conspiracy theories.
Last month, 60 Minutes did a fawning <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHEEGxQKg20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Epps. The New York Times did a glowing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/politics/jan-6-conspiracy-theory-ray-epps.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> of him in July. Despite the media&#8217;s best efforts to present him as simply a victim of circumstance though, questions around the infamous January 6 provocateur remain unanswered.
Epps was a central figure in the Capitol riot from the beginning.
The 62-year-old Marine veteran from Arizona is seen in multiple video clips from January 6 and the day before trying to whip up other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump</a> supporters to “go into the Capitol” the next day.
“In fact, tomorrow, I don’t even like to say it cause I’ll be arrested,” Epps <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1451272067173736455" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tells</a> a man filming him with a phone camera.
“Well, let’s not say it,” the man responds.
“I’ll say it. We need to go into the Capitol,” Epps says.
“I’m going to put it out there. I’m probably going to go to jail for this. Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol, into the Capitol!” Epps tells fellow protesters in another clip.
“What? No! No!” members of the crowd respond in unison.
“Peacefully!” Epps adds.
The crowd of Trump supporters then starts chanting, “Fed! Fed! Fed!” at Epps.
At least four times on video, Epps repeats his call to action.
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This is the only Jan 6 participant Adam Kinzinger will defend! 
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Epps also texted his nephew that he &#8220;orchestrated&#8221; the riot.
&#8220;I was in the front with a few others, I also orchestrated it,&#8221; the text from Epps <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHEEGxQKg20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>.
Epps was initially on the FBI&#8217;s wanted list for January 6, but he was suddenly dropped. Thousands of others who behaved much less provocatively remained on the list, including at least <a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/boise-woman-sentenced-for-role-in-us-capitol-riot-pamela-hemphill-january-6-2021/277-3aa12194-5a54-4abe-88a2-d644cf5043aa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two</a> <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/23/anna-morgan-lloyd-indiana-grandmother-sentenced-ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grandmas</a> who were sentenced.
The main question that has stuck to Epps is whether he was working undercover for the federal government, the FBI in particular.
In January, 2022, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) asked the FBI deputy director point blank if the FBI had worked with Epps during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
She refused to answer.
“Was Ray Epps a fed?” Cruz <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/ted-cruz-grills-fbi-on-ray-epps-asks-if-fbi-had-informants-on-jan-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Jill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch.
“Sir, I can’t answer that question,” Sanborn replied.
Epps was interviewed by the January 6 select committee in November and again in January.
On January 11, the same day as Cruz’s questioning, the committee released a <a href="https://twitter.com/January6thCmte/status/1481007562187280387" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> saying it is aware of “unsupported claims” that Epps was an FBI informant. The statement said Epps told them “he was not employed by, working with, or acting at the direction of any law enforcement agency.”
Recently in a wild new ripple to the situation, a woman who claims to be Epps&#8217; adopted daughter <a href="https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1650694044572438537" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publicly</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Tiffanyjones316/status/1452467641969299460" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> him of sexually abusing her when she was a child. She <a href="https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1650956295208304641" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1650684392874864640" target="_blank" rel="noopener">family pictures</a> and what she said are her adoption papers on social media.
60 Minutes said Epps &#8220;doesn&#8217;t understand how he got cast as the villain&#8221; and that his version of the story is &#8220;more mundane.&#8221; Even 60 Minutes, though, admitted Epps &#8220;almost immediately stepped into trouble&#8221; once he arrived in the nation&#8217;s capital.
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to see our Capitol under attack,&#8221; Epps lamented to the interviewer as they watched the footage together.
Epps also lashed out at former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who brought national attention to the questions surrounding Epps, saying Carlson is &#8220;obsessed with me&#8221; and trying to &#8220;destroy my life.&#8221;
It doesn&#8217;t help the questions surrounding Epps that Carlson was fired from Fox News just before he planned to deliver a monologue on air that <a href="https://twitter.com/Chadwick_Moore/status/1660643619378741254" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delved into</a> those questions.
The FBI told 60 Minutes that &#8220;Ray Epps has never been an FBI source or an FBI employee.&#8221;
For now, even that assurance will likely do little to put skeptics at ease.

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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) slammed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for signing a heartbeat bill into law that protects the lives of unborn babies the moment a heartbeat in detected.
“We are proud to support life and family in the state of Florida,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-signs-heartbeat-protection-act-into-law-cementing-historic-pro-family-agenda">said</a> in signing the bill into law earlier this month. “I applaud the Legislature for passing the Heartbeat Protection Act that expands pro-life protections and provides additional resources for young mothers and families.”
Mace took issue with the signing, which she decried happened &#8220;in dead of night,&#8221; even though it was widely publicized by the governor&#8217;s office.
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&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1646711005408272384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Signing a six-week ban that puts women who are victims of rape and girls who are victims of incest — incest in a hard spot isn&#8217;t the way to change hearts and minds. It&#8217;s not compassionate,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;The requirements he has for rape victims are too much, not something that I support. It&#8217;s a nonstarter.&#8221;
&#8220;I am a victim of rape. I was raped by a classmate at the age of 16. I am very wary. And the devil is always in the details,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But we&#8217;ve got to show more care and concern and compassion for women who&#8217;ve been raped. I don&#8217;t like that this bill was signed in the dead of night.&#8221;
&#8220;And it puts him in a very difficult position for a general election in my opinion, which is why I have been so vocal on this issue,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I would like us to win. I would not only like us to win the Electoral College. I want us to win the popular vote. And if we can show the middle ground, which shouldn&#8217;t be controversial — birth control shouldn&#8217;t be controversial.&#8221;
Some conservatives have expressed hesitation about DeSantis signing such an aggressive piece of pro-life legislation into law, wondering whether it could hurt his future political aspirations.
However, some notable conservative pundits online were quick to point out that other Republican governors who have signed similar pieces of legislation into law were not harmed politically afterward.
“Kemp signed a heartbeat bill in May, 6 months before defeating Stacey Abrams, who made abortion center to her campaign post Dobbs,” former CNN reporter Gabby Orr tweeted. “Similar case made here that a heartbeat bill might not actually harm DeSantis in 2024 to the extent critics believe it will.”
AG Conservative, a popular Twitter account, responded to Orr’s tweet: “Same was true of DeWine in Ohio, who won by 25.”
“Abortion politics are complicated and often vary by area, but the places where the GOP really got punished on this issue are where candidates opposed exceptions or supported outright bans, not 1st trimester lines w exceptions,” he added.
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Same was true of DeWine in Ohio, who won by 25. 
Abortion politics are complicated and often vary by area, but the places where the GOP really got punished on this issue are where candidates opposed exceptions or supported outright bans, not 1st trimester lines w exceptions. <a href="https://t.co/AVSBH9vJua">https://t.co/AVSBH9vJua</a>
&mdash; AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1646605922704281600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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